From J. V. Carus 13 September 1877
Leipzig
Sept 13. 1877.
My dear Sir,
Although I am afraid that it will be too late for the first edition of your new book on different forms of flowers, yet I give you a short list of some few Errata, as usual.1
p. 36. l.15 dele stop (,) after “plants”.
p. 43. l.3 from bottom (text) read “plants” instead of plant.
p 53. l.8 from bottom (text) read “form” instead of forms.
p. 162. l.12 from bottom read “acts” instead of “is”.
p 196 l.17 (Class III) read “stamens”, not stamen
p 205. Class III read “from own-form mid-length stamens” instead of shortest stamens
“Shorter” would do perhaps; but the terms “longest”, “mid-length” and “shortest” refer to three different definite lengths; and in accordance therewith, there are no shortest stamens in the short-styled form.2
In different places of the book you mention “divisions of the micrometer”. Although you speak mostly of relative lengths or distances, yet I venture to suggest, that it would be perhaps still more clear, if you would give also an absolute measure May I therefore ask you, what these divisions are, ths of an inch or
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Sends a list of errata in Forms of flowers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11136
- From
- Julius Victor Carus
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leipzig
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 110
- Physical description
- AL inc †
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11136,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11136.xml